By Elton Robinson
Ethanol and biodiesel demand and commodity/index funds continue to change grain market dynamics, but one thing remains constant — the emotion of the market....
By David Bennett
MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- Spider mites have always been a problem in north Alabama. Once a late-season pest, though, the mites have been showing up earlier and earlier in the season. And the rest of the cotton-growing South is taking notice....
Assessing a “bullish” future for the cotton seed treatment market, Bayer CropScience has outlined its strategy for the fast-evolving segment. At the heart of that strategy will be the introduction of new seed-applied technologies uniquely suited to meeting growers’ needs, said John Smith, business unit manager, seed treatments with Bayer CropScience....
By David Bennett
MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- During Roger Leonard’s tenure as an LSU Extension entomologist he’s heard many consultant stories. The stories often recall a treatment recommendation and application followed by an alarming, pest-heavy field evaluation, and end with suspicions of insect resistance....
By Bruce Schultz
VILLE PLATTE, La. -- Where are the crawfish this year, especially after last year’s good crop? That’s the question a panel of LSU AgCenter experts attempted to answer recently in meetings held in LSU AgCenter extension offices in Avoyelles, Evangeline and St. Martin parishes....
By Forrest Laws
Is the Bush administration preparing to throw in the towel on the Doha Development Round? Twice in recent weeks, administration officials have gone out of their way to talk about their successes with regional and bilateral trade agreements while giving short shrift to the Doha Round....
The Environmental Protection Agency has approved the registration of new DuPont Stout herbicide for postemergence grass and broadleaf weed control in corn....
By Elton Robinson
MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- As planting season approaches for many Mid-South farmers, the uncertainty of farm programs and concern over production costs have cast a pall over what is usually a time of anticipation and nervous energy. Several farmers were surveyed on their concerns for the coming season during the Mid-South Farm and Gin Show....
By Forrest Laws
MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- “It’s hard out here for a ginner.” Maybe it was the location or the expressed longing of some of the ginners to escape their lot, but the paraphrase of the Oscar-winning song from the recent movie came to mind when Robert W. Greene spoke to the Southern Cotton Ginners annual meeting....
BATON ROUGE, La. -- Louisiana farmers and agricultural researchers now can obtain estimates of daily evapotranspiration, thanks to a new tool available through the LSU AgCenter’s Louisiana Agriclimatic Information System....
The Environmental Protection Agency has approved the registration of DuPont Canopy herbicide for pre-emergence use in soybeans. Canopy provides effective broad-spectrum weed control with early-season residual activity, which allows growers more flexibility in timing their postemergence glyphosate treatments....
By Forrest Laws
WASHINGTON -- House Appropriations Committee members voted along party lines to reject an amendment that would have provided $3.4 billion in assistance to farmers who experienced losses due to hurricanes, droughts or other weather disasters in 2005....
By Forrest Laws
MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- Thomas Wedegaertner says cotton ginners may have to find another Eli Whitney to help them escape the economic woes more and more Mid-South and Southeastern gin operators are facing....
The National Cotton Council’s Executive Committee approved recommendations from the NCC’s Bale Moisture Task Force for dealing with high moisture and water-packed bales....
Syngenta Crop Protection has received U.S. EPA approval for changes to the Touchdown Total and Touchdown HiTech glyphosate herbicide labels — changes that provide for maximum use rates, an added application and drop nozzle use with hybrids featuring Agrisure GT and Roundup Ready corn....
With the price of fuel recently approaching $3 per gallon in the US, farmers have found their livelihoods threatened by rising input costs cutting into already razor thin profit margins. ...
By David Bennett
According to the Dana Brooks, the driving forces for the 2007 farm bill will be the budget, the WTO, current farm conditions and politics....
By Elton Robinson
U.S. corn acres for 2006 may not decline as much as analysts have been thinking with December futures prices over $2.50 at the time of this writing, strong exports and ethanol use and fuel prices in the wholesale market headed down....
Eligible gins are urged to sign-up for the 2004 Cottonseed Payment Program (CPP) by the March 27 deadline. ...
By Forrest Laws
The USA Rice Federation says the new U.S.-Colombia Free Trade Agreement could mean increased sales of U.S. rice — thanks, in part, to the persistence of the U.S. Trade Representative’s chief agricultural negotiator Richard Crowder....
By Forrest Laws
The American Soybean Association and 15 other farm groups are asking the Bush administration to make sure nothing happens to water down “meaningful” market access provisions in any Doha Development Round agreement....
By Andrew Bell
While China’s continual presence in the cotton industry dominates analysts’ conversations, one respected entrepreneur’s economic assessment of the crop paid nearly equal attention to another region: west Texas....
By Hembree Brandon
“Everything about skip-row cotton, we love — it has made us profitable again,” says Keith Morton, who with his wife, Beth, farms 1,000 acres in the north Mississippi hills near Falkner....
By Lamar James
Matt Fortenberry and Ned McAffry took first and second place, respectively, in the 2005 Arkansas Soybean Yield Challenge contest. Both men farm in Chicot County....
By Andrew Bell
Hugh Warren, president of Catfish Farmers of America, has called Aquaflor a “breakthrough for the industry.”...
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